BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS
DATE:
04/12/2006
Belarusian Roman Catholics Go On Hunger Strike Over Church-Construction Permit
A Roman Catholic priest and 11 female members of his parish went on a hunger strike in Hrodna, northwestern Belarus, on December 1 to protest the local authorities' refusal to grant the parish a permit for the construction of a church, Belapan reported. Father Alyaksandr Shemet told the agency that his community of 8,000 parishioners currently has two chapels that can accommodate some 320 people at a time. The community first filed an official request for a plot of land to build a church on in 1998. JM
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